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しぼむ · shibomu · JLPT N2 · verb-godan

to wither

🌸 しぼむ sounds like 'shy bomb': a shy flower bomb that slowly deflates and droops as it dies

Shibomu shares the root of 絞る (shiboru, to wring out), so a wilting flower is like a petal wrung dry of water and sagging.

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